Mekudeshet . Sentenced to Marriage

Duration: 01:05:00 Three yong married women trapped in religious courts in their attempts to get a divorce, which can only be granted with their husbands' consent. Dependant on their husbands' whim, they do not know when release will finally come. A married woman is forbidden to have a rel...

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Other Authors: Zuria, Anat
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:Hebrew
Published: Breuer, Amit 2004
Israel
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:01a3439a-6bfd-45b0-87c6-c7c02105c1b9
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description Duration: 01:05:00 Three yong married women trapped in religious courts in their attempts to get a divorce, which can only be granted with their husbands' consent. Dependant on their husbands' whim, they do not know when release will finally come. A married woman is forbidden to have a relationship with another man even if her husband has lons since gone to live with another woman. Denied other relationships, the women are condemned to profound psychological and physical suffering. In Israel, a democratic country of the 21st century, their pain and anguish is embedded in the law. Being young and anonymous, their voices are silenced. For two years the film follows the Kafkaesque struggle of Tamara, Michelle and rachel - three young women doing all that is humanly possible to obtain a divorce, with the help of a group of female orthodox rabbinical advocates.
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publishDate 2004
publisher Breuer, Amit
Israel
spellingShingle Mekudeshet . Sentenced to Marriage
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title Mekudeshet . Sentenced to Marriage
topic [Documentary film]
url http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:01a3439a-6bfd-45b0-87c6-c7c02105c1b9